“You can have everything in life you want if you’ll just help enough other people to get what they want!” — Zig Ziglar

If you don’t create a culture of learning then your people will not grow.

In many industries continuing education is mandated. Aren’t you glad?

Learning and professional growth at any organizational level makes a person more valuable, instills trust in others and gives them a feeling of satisfaction. So why then do so many business owners claim that they don’t have the time or the money to train? And why do so many business owners fight the same morale and turn over problems year after year? Because they simply can not see the return on investment that knowledge and job satisfaction provide.

Training can be molded to different sizes and forms. Seminars/Workshops, Breakouts, Retreats, or one on one. While you can a la carte a subject, at High Performance Advocates we suggest an ongoing series with spaced repetition for better retention.

Here are some examples of our most-requested training series:

Developing High Performance Leadership

Building Trust in Your Organization

Any organization without trust is a chaotic organization. But don’t worry, there are no ropes courses or falling exercises necessary. Play the “Win as Much as You Can “ game and find out how competition can turn into collaboration.

Empowering Employees: From Good to Great – You can Bridge the Gap Between What You Want and What You Get

Learn the difference between commitment and compliance motivation. Learn how leadership must change to help others become committed. Learn the principles and elements that empower people. Understand and take away tools and skills you can use today to begin to build commitment and accountability in your organization.

The No-Wimp Zone: Setting Performance Expectations

What do you do when you need to confront someone who isn’t meeting expectations? Chances are you do NOTHING for as long as possible! Learn how to set non-negotiables, and how to use dialogue to reduce unpleasant emotions, raise the bar, and get the outcomes you need. High performance businesses are born of high expectations.

Effective Meetings and Decision Making

Few would disagree that many (if not most) meetings are poorly organized and run. In addition, even if we have a good structure in place for our meetings, how do teams and organizations go about making good decisions? Using a group decision-making model you can improve your ability to reach consensus and at the same time learn how to create effective and efficient meetings that result in action and accountability.

Learn how to Manage, Motivate, and Communicate with People Under the Age of 30

Learn to bridge the gap and manage your young workers. If your organization is not building strategies for recruiting, hiring, training and retaining Generation Why, you’ll face BIG problems SOON! This motivational workshop and presentation will help you to understand this new generation and how it impacts your organization.

People Don’t Want to Be Managed, They want to be Led!

“People Don’t Want to be Managed – They Want to be Led!” is a motivational presentation about changing the role of managers and leaders at all levels of your organization in order to build a committed workforce. Learn to recognize yourself as a leader, as well as the myths, methods and expectations of empowering others.

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Teamwork, Group Dynamics, Roles and Responsibilities, Goal Setting

Customer Focus

Being self managing is one enormous element that makes a High Performing team different from a traditional team. But how do you do that? You need to work together to learn how to share responsibilities, assign core and coordinating roles, understand what information and authority each member needs to perform well and develop leadership at all levels. This workshop is a critical tool to elevating the sense of contribution as well as results of any organization.

Setting Goals and Keeping Score

If you don’t measure results, how will you know what they are? Understand the importance of setting goals and tracking your performance. Learn the building blocks of score keeping. Identify your team’s key result areas. Establish metrics in each of your key result areas. Assess your current performance. Set goals and action steps in each of your key result areas. Evaluate your feedback system.

Group Dynamics

What the heck are group dynamics? Through team building exercises, experience group dynamics in action. Rate your team’s dynamics and determine what you can do to improve your team. Experience and discuss what makes and breaks your team’s process and learn about shared leadership in action.

Why High Performance Teams Work

In this fun and interactive workshop, you will create a model factory using a traditional, industrial business model. This model is similar to that of the 97% of organizations that don’t last more than 5 years. We then create the same factory, but using the High Performance model. Not only will you learn the skills and tools to turn your organization into a high-performing one but you’ll and you will see why revenue and job satisfaction soars for those who create high-performing teams.

Creating Your Own High Performing Team

Now you know teams work—but how do you go about creating them in your organization? And if you’ve created them, how can you make them successful? Using team-building exercises, and learning the types, roles, responsibilities and obstacles, you will discover how to take your work group and transform it into a high performance team.

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Problem Solving, Decision Making and Meeting Effectiveness, Time Management

Personal Productivity: Acting From Your Priorities

Understand the difference between “urgent” and “important.” Develop habits of self-management that allow you to schedule time for the important. Learn how you are currently using your time, and the barriers which keep you from managing your time more effectively. Create a systematic approach to managing daily events.

Group Decision Making and Problem Solving

It is critical that teams learn both of these skills. In this fun and interactive workshop, you’ll be taken through a simulated life or death exercise to discover the ways groups make decisions. Then it becomes easy to learn methods of decision making that will improve your team or organization’s outcomes. Learn and practice the skill of creative brainstorming to help your team think outside the box, analyze problems as a part of a group problem solving model to help your team will improve its problem solving skills while making good decisions.

Effective Meetings and Decision Making

Few would disagree that many (if not most) meetings are poorly organized and run. In addition, even if we have a good structure in place for our meetings, how do teams and organizations go about making good decisions? Using a group decision-making model you can improve your ability to reach consensus and at the same time learn how to create effective and efficient meetings that result in action and accountability.

Creating Your Own High Performing Team

Now you know teams work—but how do you go about creating them in your organization? And if you’ve created them, how can you make them successful? Using team-building exercises, and learning the types, roles, responsibilities and obstacles, you will discover how to take your work group and transform it into a high performance team.

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Entrepreneurial Skills

The Three High-Payoff Activities Guaranteed to Grow Your Business Today

Many small businesses fail in spite of having quality products and services. The overwhelming reason for failure? Lack of focus on key High Payoff Activities. This motivational presentation is a straight forward, no-nonsense approach that simplifies without being simplistic.

Products Don’t Sell, People Do

Don’t want to think about the dirty “S” word? Are you “marketing” then staring at a phone that doesn’t ring? Do you need more sales but you don’t know where to start?After this motivational workshop, you will walk away with tools that you can use immediately and skills that will last you a lifetime. If you know you must sell, but you’d rather poke your eye with a blunt stick, then you will want to attend presentation.

Three Steps to Turn Facts and Features into Benefits and Sales

Fact 1: To succeed in business we need to sell our product or service. Fact 2: In order to increase sales we need to answer our prospects’ five magic words: “What’s in it for me?” In this presentation, Ruth shares the steps that will turn your prospects into customers and your customers into loyal, long-term clients. Learn the three steps and take away tools to use for a lifetime of sales.

Four Steps to Survive a Changing Business Climate

Tough Times? Terrible economy? Don’t know how you’ll stay in business? or – Having overwhelming success because of the economy? Not sure how you’ll survive all this opportunity? Start to think creatively about the company that you want to own or work for, and developing concrete strategies for getting there. Learn what great companies know about building great insights out of the market’s ups and downs.

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Communication Skills

Basic Communication Skills

This isn’t rocket science. But somehow we must be reminded, repeatedly, that it’s not necessarily what we say, its what they hear. Learn how people’s perceptions and viewpoints differ. Learn the basics of face-to-face communication. Analyze the difference between one-way and two-way communication. Understand the skill of listening. Improve and practice your active listening skills.

Face-to-Face Communication

Explore the role of communication in interpersonal relationships. Learn about alternative ways of communicating and influencing others. Identify your “native tongue” or preferred style of communicating. Understand the consequences of an absence of dialogue and how to reach for dialogue and win/win.

Giving and Receiving Feedback

What is feedback? Why is it so difficult at times? Discover how open or closed you are to giving and receiving feedback. Learn to give effective feedback to others–and how to receive it effectively yourself. Practice giving and receiving live feedback with team members. Make a personal improvement plan to respond to team feedback.

Conflict Resolution: The Road to Win/Win

Learn about healthy and unhealthy ways of dealing with interpersonal conflict. Assess your own “style.” Decide how you want to modify your conflict style and how you will better handle your current conflicts and practice a powerful skill for resolving conflicts in a way that everyone wins.

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